Example sentences of "[noun] they have [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mordecai had said that he usually approached the shop through the bazaar , and that was the side they had been watching . |
| 2 | But other Jews … the ones who have suffered like your zeide … for centuries they have been praying ‘ To next year in Jerusalem ’ and meaning it . |
| 3 | They show the Deee-Lite dictionary they have been compiling — nearly 400 words that includes slang from around the world , Esperanto and Deee-Lite 's own language . |
| 4 | All the buying they 've been doing must be starting to hurt . |
| 5 | But I 'd be grateful for anything — even some idea of the scale of the funds they 've been filching . |
| 6 | But er unfortunately those on the ground who have shown their skill at wrecking anything that does n't suit their purpose with the support of the Labour group , those on the ground will still be there and I do n't believe that er giving the director of education the executive powers is going to stop them continuing to take the sort of action they 've been taking . |
| 7 | No one was jumping for joy because they 'd finally got the piece they 'd been searching for for years . |
| 8 | Once again there was a flurry of bodies from the doorway they had been defending and another charge . |
| 9 | Maybe this was the break they had been waiting for . |
| 10 | They carried away the bin of meat fragments they had been carrying . |
| 11 | In the western provinces they have been distributing leaflets , many carrying the warning : Pros tvoeu chi , neari tvoeu pouch — ‘ We will make the men into fertiliser , and keep the women for reproduction ’ — to deter collaboration with the government . |
| 12 | read aloud to the class or teacher and talk about the books they have been reading ; |
| 13 | For months they had been trying with divets and tackle to hoist the appropriate two-ton stone upright and into its hole . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 17 | Over the past 18 months they have been arriving , hundreds at a time , crammed into cargo space and sometimes half-starved during a circuitous voyage . |
| 18 | In general these movements have operated only at grass-roots level , but in some areas they have been joining up to form networks of organisations of the urban poor . |
| 19 | Chris described to her in painstaking detail the story of the cartoon they 'd been watching . |
| 20 | Source C " The impression left on the minds of those who heard the speech , after the first sensations of surprise had passed , was that the whole thing had been arranged long before and that , while in the Cabinet and committee they had been making panic stricken efforts to balance the budget , the whole business had been a humbug and make-believe . " |
| 21 | And with Teddy Sheringham , back at the City ground for the first time since his move to Spurs , and Durie performing like statues , Forest quickly found the self-belief they have been lacking . |
| 22 | All over Spain , rebel officers put into action the plan they had been elaborating since December of the previous year . |
| 23 | Conference , if you think back to all those times that you have sat at home watching the news after a day 's work like I have , and listen carefully to what is being said , you may well have been horrified and saddened to hear the many stories appertaining to people who have had accidents or died due to the fact that the machine they have been driving has been too powerful . |
| 24 | Since December they have been pouring from a new fissure in Etna , 7,500ft above sea level . |
| 25 | While at Croydon SSD , Ambache had to support his director in a battle with a while couple who wanted to adopt a black child they had been fostering . |
| 26 | For several decades they have been studying superbly preserved fossils from the rocks of the Burgess shale , found in the Canadian Rockies , which are among the earliest fossils of complicated organisms . |
| 27 | One moment they had been crossing a burning glade of shoulder-high grass in the full glare of the sun and the next they descended abruptly into a dark , silent , mysterious world where the air was cool and moist , the earth soft and spongy underfoot , and dazzling orchids blazed suddenly among the deep green undergrowth . |
| 28 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 29 | Over the past few weeks they 'd been rubbing along fairly civilly , though not without the occasional spark flying between them . |
| 30 | There was restrained optimism among Wickham 's team that this could be the lead they had been waiting for . |